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Mavs locker room atmosphere: Loose

One never knows whether a loose pre-game locker room is a predictor of a winning locker room, but one thing is certain: If the Mavericks are uptight, they aren’t showing it:

A few pregame observations:

–When Caron Butler came back to the locker room after early warmups, Dirk Nowitzki greeted him with “CB, how’s the shot look?”

Responded Butler: “Featheryish. Is that a word, featherish?”

–A TV in the locker room showed Game 5. J.J. Barea and Matt Carroll kept forwarding and rewinding to parts of the game in which Eddie Najera bowled over Spurs players. Najera laughed as Barea poked fun at the forward’s bull-in-the-china-shop disposition on the court.